St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-21
RETORTS COURTEOUS.
Conversations Between People
Who Know How to Say Some
thing.

Conversations Between People
Who Know How to Say Some
thing.
Isaac Came, a rich shoemaker of Man.
chester, who left his property to public
charities, opened his first shop opposite
to the building where he had been ser
want, and put up sign which read: Il.
Came-fr0m over the way" Somewhat
like this was the sign of tavernkeeper
named Danger, near Cambridge, who,
having been driven out OF his house,
built another opposite, and inscribed it:
''Danger-from over the way" The
successor retOrted by putting up new
inscriptions There is no danger here
now"
The recent illness Of Bishop Lee, of
Delaware, recalls one of the many bon
mots of the late Miss Katharine Bay
ard, who was noted for her cleverneSs
at repartee. The secretary's daughter
was one day walking the streets of the
sleepy old town of Wilmington, when a
friend who met her said that he had
just seen her uncle, the bishop. ''He
was looking very rocky and ill.," said
the Wilmingtonian, land tottered from
side to side as if he were seasick." 1T
is much more probable" replied Miss
Bayard, that he is only sick of his
See."
II. o. Seixas, the New Orleans
banker, is now almost as much in New
York as in his tropical home. He is a
fluent cOnverSationalist, and is fond of
Latin. One evening at the Hoffman
house he was missed from the parlor.
where a gay party of Southerners were
making merry. ''Where have you been,
Mr.. SeiXas?" asked young lady when
he returned. ''0h, just outside in the
cuspador, walking pro and CON- he re-
piled. He was once deeply offended at
covert sneer in a Washington paper.
Why" said he, THAT is catamOunt to
calling me fOOl!'
wealthy JewesS of the Rothschild fam
lily, once took her to India with him.
They attended dinner at Calcutta. at
which the Duchess of Manchester was
seated next to the Rajah of Bundle
c0mbe. The Rajah asked: .'And this
Lord ROSebery of your great country
has he brought his wives with him?"
''S-Sh!' exclaimed the duchess. blush
ing scarlet. ''That's Lady Rosebery
over. there, next the viceroy." The
Oriental regarded Lady Rosebery for
some moments, and then remarked with
sigh: ''Poor young man! | hope
IucJ dllOW liliil Il lllctI Oiic Ut nome -
Once writes Edmund Yates | was in
a Paris omnibus, when a young woman.
carrying big milliner's box and look
ing very tagged and weary, jumped on
the platform, and prepared to stand the
jolting, there being no room inside. My
opposite neighbor, an aristocratic-look-
ing gentleman, advanced in years. rose
from his seat, stepped out onto the plat
form, and said to the young milliner:
''Mademoiselle, permettez moi de vols
cedar ma place" The girl looked at
him second, and replied: ''Pour qui
me prenezvouS, sspece Gle vieux salig-
AUDI" Pardon, mademoiselle, lie he
savals pas Qu'une attention pouvait etre
prise pour une intention" And so say
ing, the gentleman, who was no other
than the Prince de Joinyille, resumed
his seat, and | understood why French
men never offer their seats in an omni-
bus to ladies, whether young, old or
middle-aged. 1t is not the custom of
the country, and the kind attention"
might therefore be mistaken for a
wicked "iIltention."